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Light earthquake, 4.4 mag has occurred near Port-Vila in Vanuatu


Earthquake location -17.4032S, 167.7978WA light earthquake magnitude 4.4 (ml/mb) has occurred on Tuesday, 66 kilometers (41 miles) from Port-Vila in Vanuatu. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 167.7978 East, latitude -17.4032 South, depth = 40.826 km. The 4.4-magnitude earthquake was detected at 04:15:14 / 4:15 am (local time epicenter). All ids that are associated to the event: us6000q3qq. Unique identifier: us6000q3qq. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 25/03/25 / 2025-03-25 04:15:14 / March 25, 2025 @ 4:15 am. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 40.826 km (25 miles).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 67 km (41 miles) from Port-Vila (c. 35 900 pop). Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Port-Vila (min 5000 pop). Close country/countries, Vanuatu (c. 222 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been three, in the last 10 days four, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days one hundred and seventeen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world each year.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 66 km NW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu.

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More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.4 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 167.7978° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude -17.4032° South Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 40.826 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 66 km NW of Port-Vila, Vanuatu Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-03-25 04:15:14 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-04-08 02:26:02 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 298 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 10 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.027 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.32 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 196 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000q3qq Id of event.
Event Code 6000q3qq An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000q3qq, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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